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"It always amazes me when people say that," Barclay said. "Sex is generally easy enough to define, but love? What is love? What lies between that triangle of attraction, lust and affection? There are plenty of studies that show that even men are wired to feel affection for those they have sex with. Sex and love aren't separate. Not always, not usually."
He grinned at Ellie. "Now, that love sucks? That is a much more well-known fact. Ask Byron. Ask Goethe. Hell, ask Shakespeare. It's the sweetest agony and the loveliest despair." The grin turned into a smirk. "Really, if you think about it, there's no better image than an angel falling in love with a demon." Or a witch falling for a dragon.